Looping Devices I Use
Many loopers available allow you to switch between loops, so you can make an entire song over pre-recorded verse/chorus patterns.
This isn’t the way I use loops though. While this idea might be fine for a 1 man band situation, or rehearsing ideas, it is the live manipulation of the loop which starts the creative process …
Mackie 1202-VLZ Mixer
This sits on top of the rack and I plug my whole setup into it. What a great sounding mixer! I don’t think I will ever sell it, as it sounds too good.
This is the way I was using it (here is the tricky part!):
Guitar preamp into channels 5 & 6 (stereo)
The guitar synth …
Roland GI-10
The guitar cannot be plugged directly into a synth. In order to play the synth’s sounds, the guitar signal must be converted to midi information so the synth can understand. The Roland GI-10 is a half-rack spaced unit that takes the audio information from my RMC pickups (or my spare Yamaha G1d pickup) mounted …
Roland XV-5050
I bought this to replace my 8 year old (archaic in keyboard years) Roland M-GS64. This one comes with 8 times more memory for samples than my old synth, and is expandable with 2 SRX expansion cards. While my old synth had about 5 parameters to tweak per sound, the XV has about 300 more. …
Boss VF-1 Effects Processor
I use this to provide compression and reverb for the piezo pickups as well as for acoustic guitar recording, since it has a digital out on it. It is a nice sounding effects unit, although probably overkill for what I use it for.
Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro
This is my favorite toy of all. Essentially, the Echoplex records sound as you play it, and after recording it, it repeats it over and over, until you tell it to fade out, or stop altogether. Now while it is playing back, you can overdub on the loop as much as you want. Instead of …
Roland GT-Pro
This replaced my GP-100, and provides me with better tone, more options, and hours of delightful tweaking. The only things I miss is the GP-100′s panable and reversible harmonies. But the connectivity and sound of this thing more than makes up for it.
The Mighty 6-Space Rack
Coming out of this rack is a tangle of wires. One set is for the mixer, the other for the pedalboard, I split these up then bound them together with split tubing from (again) Home Depot, which is about 1″ wide, and cost maybe $3. I know online music retailers sell that stuff for a …
